ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

ALMA ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee F2F 2014

Connection Info

192.33.117.12##6516
434-817-6283

Presentation Links

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & charges – Phil Jewell

09.15 – 09.45 NAASC Status and Community Feedback - Phil Jewell, Carol Lonsdale

09.45 – 10.15 Science Overview & Publications - A. Wootten, C. Brogan

10.15 – 10.45 ALMA Archive and Pipeline – M. Lacy, J. Kern

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12:00 Cycle 1, Cycle 2 Proposal Outcomes and PRP lessons- Hibbard, Remijan

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch.

12.45: Meet the NAASC

13.00 - 13.45 Policy Issues - Jewell, Hibbard, Bolatto

13.45 – 14.15 Community Outreach - Sheth / EPO / Community Outreach - Lonsdale / Community Support (data) - Sheth, Blue, Lonsdale

14.15 – 15.00 Current North American Plan for Development - Shannon, Randolph, Wootten

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16:00 ALMA2030 Discussion - Bolatto, Wootten, Brogan

Duration and Info

Location

  • NRAO Room 230 - Stone Hall Building, 520 Edgemont Road, Auditorium, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
  • Logistics
  • video hub phone 4348176283

Contact

  • Leader: Phil Jewell, Al Wootten
  • For additional information contact: Lyndele von Schill

Agenda

  • Items pertaining to ANASAC Charges are in Blue.

Wednesday

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & charges – Phil Jewell

09.15 – 09.45 NAASC Status and Community Feedback - Phil Jewell, Carol Lonsdale

09.45 – 10.15 Science Overview & Publications - A. Wootten, C. Brogan

  • ANASAC DISCUSSION:
    • Is the publication rate reasonable, and if not, what is the bottleneck in publishing the data?
    • Information about PI funding: what have people used to work on ALMA data?

  • RELEVANT CHARGE:
    • ANASAC Charge #1: Scientific outcomes and impact from Cycles 0 and 1. Is North America doing well--what are the challenges?
    • ANASAC Standing Charge: To lead community outreach through leadership of workshops.

10.15 – 10.45 ALMA Archive and Pipeline – M. Lacy, J. Kern

  • ALMA pipeline (Kern)
  • ALMA Archive (Lacy)
  • ANASAC DISCUSSION:
    • What more may be needed to make the archive a useful entry point for beginners and for data miners?

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12:00 Cycle 1, Cycle 2 Proposal Outcomes and PRP lessons- Hibbard, Remijan

  • Cycle 1, 2 Status & Cycle 3 Preparations (Hibbard)
  • Cycle 2, 3 Capabilities (Remijan)

  • ANASAC DISCUSSION:
    • ASAC Charge 2 (see below)
    • ANASAC discussion: is the feedback to proposers good? how can it be improved?
    • Is the technical assessment worthwhile?
    • Duplication check in OT, information to panels
    • ACTION ITEM for ANASAC: provide "science assessors" suggestions to populate panels in cycle 3

  • RELEVANT CHARGE:
    • ANASAC Charge 2: Assess the status of Cycle 1 observations and progress made towards Cycle 2. For Cycle 1, are the data meeting user expectations, modulo the best efforts approach to early science? Are the data being released to the PIs in a timely fashion?

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch.

12.45: Meet the NAASC

13.00 - 13.45 Policy Issues - Jewell, Hibbard, Bolatto

  • Policy Issues (Jewell)

  • ANASAC DISCUSSION:
    • Revise definition of "large program" (currently >=100 hrs). Should it be 50 hrs?
    • Timeliness of Treasury-type programs?
    • PI access to data before QA2 (anything new here?)
    • Why only 10% carry-over "A ranked" projects?

13.45 – 14.15 Community Outreach - Sheth, Blue, Lonsdale

  • Community Outreach and Diversity – Sheth
    • Outreach Events - Community Days, Webinars
    • Diversity Initiatives
  • Community Outreach - Other Programs - Lonsdale
  • Education and Public Outreach - Blue

  • ANASAC DISCUSSION:
    • Is NRAO is successfully reaching the broader, non-expert community

  • RELEVANT CHARGE:
    • Does the support from the ARCs continue to meet users' needs?
    • ANASAC Standing Charge:To provide a mechanism for widening ALMA's base within the community and feedback to the NAASC on community perception of ALMA.

14.15 – 15.00 Current North American Plan for Development - Shannon, Randolph, Wootten

  • Status
    • APP roll out. Developing VLBI model
    • Band 2, conclusions from meeting
    • Future calls
    • Plans for distribution of studies
      • Summary of completed FY2013 study results
      • Accepted studies currently under way; final reports to be published in ALMA Memos.

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16:00 ALMA2030 Discussion - Bolatto, Wootten, Brogan

  • Importance, report content, and progress
    • Help from ANASAC
    • Likely avenues of long-term development

16.00 – 17:30 Committee closed session

  • Further discussion of points above and preparation of report

17.30 - 18.00 Feedback to the director

19.00 Dinner Celebration of the Completion of Cycle 1, Commencement of Cycle 2.

Sedona Taphouse 7:00pm Directions from Residence Inn to Sedona Taphouse

Attendees

ANASAC Members

Suspected Attendees

Committee Members: Marrone, Carpenter, Plambeck, Bolatto, Doeleman, Calzetti Others: Frail, Glendenning User Committee Visitors: Chatterjee, Lazio

NRAO/NAASC

NSF

  • Phil Puxley

-- AlWootten - 25 Apr 2014

Topic attachments
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
01_ANASAC2014_Charges.pdfpdf 01_ANASAC2014_Charges.pdf manage 264 K 2014-05-28 - 09:00 LyndeleVonSchill  
02_ANASAC2014_Overview.pdfpdf 02_ANASAC2014_Overview.pdf manage 374 K 2014-05-28 - 09:42 LyndeleVonSchill  
03_ANASAC2014_Feedback.pdfpdf 03_ANASAC2014_Feedback.pdf manage 2 MB 2014-05-28 - 09:43 LyndeleVonSchill  
04_ANASAC2014_Science.pdfpdf 04_ANASAC2014_Science.pdf manage 712 K 2014-05-28 - 09:44 LyndeleVonSchill  
05_ANASAC2014_Pipeline.pdfpdf 05_ANASAC2014_Pipeline.pdf manage 357 K 2014-05-28 - 09:44 LyndeleVonSchill  
06_ANASAC2014_Archive.pdfpdf 06_ANASAC2014_Archive.pdf manage 451 K 2014-05-28 - 09:44 LyndeleVonSchill  
07_ANASAC2014_Cycle123.pdfpdf 07_ANASAC2014_Cycle123.pdf manage 3 MB 2014-05-28 - 09:44 LyndeleVonSchill  
08_ANASAC2014_Cycle23.pdfpdf 08_ANASAC2014_Cycle23.pdf manage 481 K 2014-05-27 - 12:44 AnthonyRemijan  
08_ANASAC2014_Cycle2_3_Remijan.pdfpdf 08_ANASAC2014_Cycle2_3_Remijan.pdf manage 481 K 2014-05-28 - 09:45 LyndeleVonSchill  
09_ANASAC2014_Policies.pdfpdf 09_ANASAC2014_Policies.pdf manage 289 K 2014-05-28 - 09:45 LyndeleVonSchill  
10_ANASAC2014_Outreach_Sheth.pdfpdf 10_ANASAC2014_Outreach_Sheth.pdf manage 979 K 2014-05-28 - 09:45 LyndeleVonSchill  
11_ANASAC2014_EPO.pdfpdf 11_ANASAC2014_EPO.pdf manage 562 K 2014-05-28 - 09:45 LyndeleVonSchill  
12_Lonsdale_ANASAC2014_Outreach_other.pdfpdf 12_Lonsdale_ANASAC2014_Outreach_other.pdf manage 3 MB 2014-05-28 - 09:46 LyndeleVonSchill  
13_ANASAC2014_Development.pdfpdf 13_ANASAC2014_Development.pdf manage 621 K 2014-05-28 - 10:01 LyndeleVonSchill  
14_CommunitySupport_JJ.pdfpdf 14_CommunitySupport_JJ.pdf manage 68 K 2014-05-28 - 09:46 LyndeleVonSchill  
2014UC_ALMAOpsConst.pdfpdf 2014UC_ALMAOpsConst.pdf manage 1 MB 2014-05-27 - 11:25 PhilJewell ALMA Ops & Const ppt for 2014 Users Committee (Jewell & Randolph)
ALMA_PRPprinciples_extracts.pdfpdf ALMA_PRPprinciples_extracts.pdf manage 250 K 2014-05-25 - 09:39 JohnHibbard Extracts from ALMA PRP principles document (large proposals, A grades)
C2_NAfeedback.pdfpdf C2_NAfeedback.pdf manage 504 K 2014-05-27 - 14:07 CarolLonsdale C2_NAfeedback_report
Fullreport_draft_May2014.pdfpdf Fullreport_draft_May2014.pdf manage 1 MB 2014-05-22 - 10:57 AlWootten PATHWAYS TO DEVELOPING ALMA A document to inform the scientific discussions leading to the development of a roadmap for improvements in ALMA
NRAO_ALMALIVE_WebexReview.pdfpdf NRAO_ALMALIVE_WebexReview.pdf manage 212 K 2014-05-26 - 17:03 AlWootten WebEx Review (Sheth)
NRAO_CD_2013_Review.pdfpdf NRAO_CD_2013_Review.pdf manage 1 MB 2014-05-26 - 17:03 AlWootten Review of Community Days (Sheth)
PI_access_to_data.pdfpdf PI_access_to_data.pdf manage 140 K 2014-05-25 - 09:38 JohnHibbard Position papers by ARC Managers on PI early access to raw data
PhaseII_Procedures_Cyc1_Sec8.pdfpdf PhaseII_Procedures_Cyc1_Sec8.pdf manage 166 K 2014-05-25 - 09:37 JohnHibbard Current ALMA Change Request policies
Scheduler.pdfpdf Scheduler.pdf manage 815 K 2014-05-27 - 15:19 JohnHibbard Description & Screenshots of ALMA Dynamic Scheduler
Sciencethemes.pdfpdf Sciencethemes.pdf manage 32 K 2014-05-22 - 11:00 AlWootten Major Science Themes for 20202030
majorfacilities.pdfpdf majorfacilities.pdf manage 128 K 2014-05-22 - 10:58 AlWootten Major facilities by 2030
Topic revision: r26 - 2014-05-28, LyndeleVonSchill
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